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The Request/Response Cycle
When User A decides he want to pay a visit to http://example.com/ it all begins with a Request. A short moment later he is given a Response. In this cycle Request-Response a lot is going on, in ...
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Is path in Set-Cookie URL encoded?
I'm writing some code that sets cookies and I'm wondering about the exact semantics of the Set-Cookie header. Imagine the following HTTP header line:
Set-Cookie: name=value; Path=/%20
For with path ...
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Which HTTP status codes are really OK?
I am writing an application to report to the user(devs) when their website fails. And what I mean by fails which is unfunctional or needs to report the problem to devs. I do understand that status ...
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Is Google's Page Speed not working fine?
I've been making small improvements to a public ASP.NET site that I have and have ran it through Google's online Page Speed several times. I have a specific problem, but something that really threw me ...
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REST and redirecting the response
I'm developing a RESTful service. Here is a map of the current feature set:
POST /api/document/file.jpg (creates the resource)
GET /api/document/file.jpg (retrieves the resource)
DELETE ...
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RESTful HTTP OPTIONS request content
I'm having trouble determining what I might put in the body of a response to an OPTIONS request? are there conventions? standards? What do you put? do you just provide a list of other METHODS? should ...
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What are some best practices for cookie based web authentication?
I'm working on a small side project using CGI and Python (scalability is not an issue and it needs to be a VERY simple system.)
I was thinking of implementing authentication using cookies, and was ...
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An application to get statistical data about HTTP Request/Response
I'm looking for an application which takes the address of a website, browses that website, and provides reports based on some user-defined criteria about the HTTP requests/responses. For example, this ...
